We´ve all dreamed together of being kids forever
hanging on to all the people that we love like
Monroe and JFK, hoping they'll come back someday
Elvis, John and Jimmy, too, what´s the world gonna do?

Everybody needs a hero to look up to
like kings and queens and stars upon the silver screen, whoa !
Everybody needs a hero in this world to survive
to keep yourself alive

We made believe that we could be on TV
a secret fantasy that we were Mr James Dean
Then Alan Freed called it Rock n´Roll and started it all
The Beatles, Who, Kiss and Crue
what´s the world gonna do?

Everybody needs a hero to look up to
like kings and queens and stars upon the silver screen, whoa !
Everybody needs a hero in this world to survive
to keep yourself alive

We´re all living in, a world of AIDS and sin
we´re taken one by one in vain from what we all have done
Turn on the TV set, Theres murder, rape, i do regret
don´t despair, we care
trust in me I´ll set you free

Everybody needs a hero to look up to
like kings and queens and stars upon the silver screen, whoa !
Everybody needs a hero in this world to survive
to keep yourself alive